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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-23-025703"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BCAL"
cik: "0001795815"
company_name: "California BanCorp \\ CA"
filed_at: "2023-07-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T00:45:54.949246+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Southern California Bancorp annual meeting elects ten directors, ratifies auditor

## Summary
- All ten director nominees elected with over 14.3 million 'for' votes each; broker non-votes ~1.5 million per nominee.
- Ratification of Eide Bailly as independent auditor approved with 15,875,842 votes for, 16 against, 1 abstain.
- No broker non-votes on ratification proposal as it is a routine matter.
- Meeting held July 26, 2023; results filed July 27, 2023.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-23-025703
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BCAL
- cik: 0001795815
- company_name: California BanCorp \ CA
- filed_at: 2023-07-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795815/000149315223025703/0001493152-23-025703-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795815/000149315223025703/form8-k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  California BanCorp \ CA shareholders approved Election of ten directors at the 2023-07-26 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-07-26
  source text: Proposal I Election of ten directors: The Company’s directors are elected based on the candidates receiving the highest number of votes of the shares entitled to vote in the election, up to the number of directors to be elected (ten). Accordingly, the following ten director nominees were elected, each for a term of one year: For Withheld Broker Non-Votes Frank D. Di Tomaso 14,361,457 4,774 1,509,628 John Farkash 14,364,894 1,337 1,509,628 Irwin Golds 14,363,269 2,962 1,509,628 Lester Machado 14,312,478 53,753 1,509,628 Richard Martin 14,363,269 2,962 1,509,628 David I. Rainer 14,363,269 2,962 1,509,628 Kaveh Varjavand 14,363,268 2,963 1,509,628 David Volk 14,363,269 2,962 1,509,628 Anne Williams 14,300,807 65,424 1,509,628 Anita Wolman 14,328,756 37,475 1,509,628
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795815/000149315223025703/0001493152-23-025703-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  California BanCorp \ CA shareholders approved Ratification of the selection of Eide Bailly LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2023 at the 2023-07-26 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-07-26
  source text: Ratification of the selection of Eide Bailly LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2023: The vote required to approve this proposal was the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares represented at the Annual Meeting. Accordingly, this proposal was approved with the following vote: For Against Abstain Broker Non Votes 15,875,842 16 1 0
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795815/000149315223025703/0001493152-23-025703-index.htm

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